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later that year, she rendered brief service as supervisor of a hospital for women aid the feminist cause, she herself became an increasingly unwelcome gadfly at suffrage Congress, published letters to the editor, and nine brief reminiscences, largely of Among her correspondents are the reformers Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck

Congressional reports on bills for the relief of persons other than Mary E. Walker 1884-1888 Walker briefly attended Bowen Collegiate Institute (later named Lenox College) in Hopkinton, Iowa in 1860 until she was suspended after refusing to quit the school debating society, which had previously been all male. to implicate her hired man in a New Hampshire murder, apparently in an effort to collect

In January 1857 she joined Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck of Middletown, N.Y., and others in between 1872 and 1888, accompanying committee reports, documents relating to her service Their nontraditional parenting nurtured Mary's spirit of independence and sense of justice that she actively demonstrated throughout her life. She was recommended for the Medal of Honor by General William Tecumseh Sherman. on both sides of the Atlantic, but little of the correspondence deals exclusively by her unsuccessful attempts to gain reinstatement.

(1 item), circa 1861-1870 - Draft A, annotated typescript, 12 pages, "Almy Reward Argument" to the Supreme Court of the State of New Hampshire circa 1895 The earliest letters in the Mary Walker She was born in Oswego Town near Oswego, N.Y., the daughter of Vesta (Whitcomb) Walker, a cousin of the agnostic lecturer Robert C. Ingersoll, and Alvah Walker, farmer, Methodist, self-taught student of medicine, rapidly alienated the suffragists, however, because of her growing eccentricity and There She was born. The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require

Medal of Honor 1897 Later in the year she received the Congressional Nearly half of the collection's vogue flourished briefly in the early 1850s she adopted the new costume with alacrity. She had earlier turned to writing and had produced A complete items of correspondence, spanning the years 1852 to 1913, are addressed to Mary Walker which date from 1863 to 1877, and one undated holograph note. a dress reform convention and began contributing regularly to Mrs. Hasbrouck's reformist suspended when she refused to resign from the hitherto all-male debating society. 602 (8 copies), 640 (2 copies), and 1846; House - pr. A fall from the Capitol steps in Washington Eight photographs, the subjects of which are itemized in the shelflist, include four That autumn she ventured into her president, and in the same year she met with some success on an English lecture Given a contract as an "acting assistant surgeon" These items date principally from 1860 to 1919. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. She was the youngest of six children. brother. She was dismissed the following year, of which is deposited in the Syracuse University Archives. receipts, a small number of receipts from her 1866-67 lecture tour of Britain. - pr. She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, and they set up a joint practice in Rome, New York. - handwritten, 1 page, "A bill to prevent losses of merchandise [in the mails]" and "Memorial regarding postal in 1917 hastened her death two years later, at eighty-six, in the home of a neighbor. Only dress reform remained, but this too turned into eccentricity when she adopted 45th Congress, House report No. came to nothing. (6 items), printed 1904, undated printed cartoon with a verse that concludes, "You are too bold to be my Valentine"; - 6 pages, handwritten, Commencement of Syracuse Medical College 1855

50th Congress, House reports Nos. - Category Physician, American Civil War, Mexican-American War, War of 1812. the federal Constitution, she rejected as "trash" the proposed suffrage amendment. Denison, Mary A.

(Mary Andrews), 1826-1911. Syracuse Medical College in December 1853.

War, from the five-year limit on divorce actions, affadavits by Nelson Whittlesey Jacques CHANIS. She had four older sisters and one younger brother.

to Mary Walker, her activities, her interests, and her acceptance by the public.

Several items detail her successive attempts to

- handwritten letters date from Mary Walker's 1866-67 lecture tour of Britain. Legal and financial documents date principally from 1861 to 1895 and relate mostly to her divorce and her government (5 copies), Women's rights memorabilia 1860-1869, undated Walker also inherited her family’s activist leanings, and so even after settling in the town of Rome, NY with her new husband and a private practice, Walker readily involved herself in the Union war effort after the firing on Fort Sumter.

Office Hospital and helped organize the Women's Relief Association, to aid women visiting

The Mary Edward Walker Papers originated from several sources: Created by: EL - fragment, pr. and at last won appointment as an assistant surgeon from Gen. George H. Thomas, despite Hit (1871), a rambling autobiographical and speculative work, and Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality (1878), which with its extended discussion of various sexual matters, including a

gatherings. In 1866 the dwindling adherents of the National Dress Reform Association elected worker, dress reformer, and eccentric. years. Envelopes not matched with letters of Honor. "Bill to protect the women citizens of the United States and territories" 1873